Of course driving the Hume Hwy in the early 1950's wasn't without it's perils. Although I had always considered Dad to be a good driver I also have to accept that the trucks he drove were 'agricultural' at best. Hydraulic and vacuum brakes didn't help much after about the first three applications. The Hwy was much narrower, rougher and steeper then. He rolled his Leyland south of Gundagai with a load of Ford Customline car-bodies, including clearly one of the Mainline utes. Cars in those days were loaded by crane onto the trucks. Dad designed and had built a 'self-loading' car carrier in the early '60s, one of the first introduced onto Australian roads. But here is my family on holidays in our Customline.